Is it even slightly significant that a phrase like, for example "six herring a tanner, fourteen for a bob" is unintelligible to most people reading this?

An interesting example income generation this morning when a supplier posted an invoice on which the only chargeable line was for ... posting an invoice

Shame about the Nobel thing. Donnie, but at least they've stopped banging on about Jeffrey

Just a thought... When Omar khayyam was writing of his "book of verses underneath the bough", might it not have been polite also to enquire of "thou" whether wilderness were still paradise enow?